#feel free to add more examples

[babygray]

Your day at a glance:

The soul is too heavy to carry alone.

[dorkycreature-89]

steven: cries over snakes not having any arms, genuinely upset over pearl poofing for the first time, worries he's not gonna grow up at all which causes him to switch back to a baby, befriends bismuth and peridot (both gems that tried to kill him), tries to heal jasper when she was starting to corrupt, becomes friends with centipeedle (and tries to help her in monster reunion), and more examples i can't list off the top of my head

su "critics": HURR DURR STEVEN SHOULD'VE KILLED THE DIAMONDS

.........explain to me how that would've made sense

[charcutieri]

Nobody:

No one:

Not even a single soul:

Westerners: These characters who are written to be commentaries on Japanese/Asian gender roles are clearly meant to be trans and anyone who disagrees with me is transphobic!

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

Will Wood and Dave Malloy giving the kids these days what they really want. Inhumanly fast and discordant piano solos.

[paintalyx]

i think it's very funny when there's a running gag in a story about the person in charge of transport (e.g. a spellcaster opening portals) straight up sucking at their job. bro doesn't know squat about geography, can't read maps or numbers, maybe even has dyscalculia. they open a portal few kilometres away from the requested spot and suddenly the party has to escape quicksand, or find their way out of an abandoned mine, or fight of wave upon wave of monsters they weren't paid to fight

[bratp0p]

Much to consider

[mcdonaldsforehead-emofurry]

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

Shoutout to "prehistoric dinosaurs" and "microscopic plankton" and "religious Jews" and other phrases that aren't as redundant as people think

[fabuloustrash05]

For those of you calling 2012 Mikey innocent and constantly babying him and saying he must be protected, you are literally doing the exact thing that he hates.

2012 Mikey has stated in the show that he hates being treated like a child and doesn’t like it when people look/treat him as such. Yes, his brothers are still gonna be protective of him but that’s brotherly instincts. He is the youngest after all.

But we have to remember that in the end…

Mikey is NOT innocent. He has committed manslaughter. He literally ate PizzaFace alive, who is a mutant that used to be a living human being.

Mikey does NOT need to be protected. He can handle himself. He managed to figure out and survive in Dimension X all on his own for what seemed like weeks/months. He also took on villains like Tiger Claw, Rahzar and Newtralizer by himself!

Mikey is NOT a baby. Mikey is a skilled ninja. Splinter has stated that Mikey has the highest intuition compared to his brothers. He was also willing to sacrifice and die for his friends and family in an attempt to to stop Newtrailzer, staying behind as Dregg’s ship exploded.

[oracleofdiscord]

one of my (new) favorite starkid things is their reprises where they've subtly changed the titular phrase

"follow the golden rule" vs "follow the gold and rule"

"bully the bully" vs "bury the bully"

i just think it's neat

[manchesterau]

Talk to me about the gay Dan voice

ok this wont be long bc they gave us a BEAUTIFUL vid that showcases perfectly what im talking about here (and i get that he was playing around this vid but still!!!!)

just the way that dan's been saying 'girllll' whenever phil speaks lol or hangs his wrist or says gay slang is just so!!!!!!! he's never really done before and i just think he's become more comfortable and sure of himself. i mean watch like a clip of the video above compared to like any video pre coming out

[festive-unserious-fellow]

I DON'T have a favorite ship dynamic I DON-

...fuck-

[jingerpi]

cursed to be perpetually aware of

"transmisogyny targets trans women -> it also hurts trans men -> anti trans panic also hurts cis women"

"the US and Israel are commiting genocide in Gaza -> the genocide is also hurting Palestinian Christians and white tourists -> this war money could be better spent domestically"

"anti homeless architecture makes it illegal to live without a house -> it also hurts disabled people -> ableist structures also hurt abled people"

it's weird because with some of these there are genuine points to be made and it's worth discussing the full consequences of things but I can't help but be aware of the human-value-hierarchy implicit in these statements and how attention is always brought away from those who suffer most from their own oppression. it's not really surprising and it's 100% the system working as intended but you really start to see it everywhere once you look

[scrumptiousstuffs]

“Boba eyes”

I can see why First effectively folds and give in to his bestie 🧡🤍🫣

[takemetodragonstone]

in succession 2x08 dundee when logan says “the past is all made up” i really do think that’s the thesis of the entire show btw.

like, the roy kids’ conflicting memories of their childhoods that are never clarified through any kind of flashbacks or confirmation, the entire fucking cruises scandal and the coverups of major crimes, kendall’s accident and how he even tries to rewrite the past in the finale (“that didn’t happen. I made it up”) as logan so often did in both big and small ways (from denying his knowledge of the cruises crimes before congress to small moments of “I told you this already” and “did I even make contact?”)

the fucking poem Dreamsong 29 by John Berryman that all the season finales are named after. this is just the last stanza:

“But never did Henry, as he thought he did, / end anyone and hacks her body up / and hide the pieces, where they may be found. / He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody’s missing. / Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. / Nobody is ever missing.”

And we never have real confirmation that logan did know about cruises because the characters (minus kendall) deny it to the last. but we know. we keep our plausible deniability because we don’t know, but we know. the show essentially makes us complicit in the same way that the characters are. most of them don’t know that he knew, because they never had any explicit proof, but as kendall says in season 3 “C’mon. We knew.”

the narrative continually shows us that logan “keeps a watchful eye over his whole empire” with perhaps the best example being how he buries the evidence of kendall’s accident and manslaughter at the end of season 1. that’s a very clear parallel to the cruises situation and that’s so skillfully and subtly woven throughout season 2 when the cruises scandals are coming to light and kendall is still reeling from the accident and his guilt.

and all that’s not even touching on the whole matter of ATN and the debate over how involved logan really is in what news stories and political views his network pushes (which could be a whole separate post of its own). very similar to how the cruises thing is handled, the line is always that logan isn’t involved, while the narrative shows us otherwise.

there are a million other examples both big and small that i could pull but this post is already such a disorganized mess. someday i’ll write an essay about it i swear, or maybe somebody else out there already has, but i just needed to point out how brilliant and subtle the show is about this as i’m rewatching season 2

[thelonelyshore-if]

Question for y'all--do you enjoy body type customization in the IFs you play? Not just height, but build? I've been considering it basically from the beginning of the game but have hesitated, mostly because I'm not 100% on where I'd add it.

But as I'm thinking ahead to potential nsfw scenes with the ROs, I feel like it would feel more natural to me to be able to reference the MC's body type. Like, without it, I could see writing them feeling a bit like writing the vague shape of a human being, rather than one with a an actual body.

But I also don't want to just keep adding customization for the sake of it, if it doesn't actively add things for the player. I've ready plenty of IFs without it and the nsfw scenes still felt great, so I could just be getting in my head about this?

Anyway, figured I'd add a poll, so: